{"id":48651,"date":"2022-09-20T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T03:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/20\/myanmar-seven-children-killed-in-junta-strike-on-village-school"},"modified":"2022-09-20T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T03:30:20","slug":"myanmar-seven-children-killed-in-junta-strike-on-village-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48651","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: seven children killed in junta strike on village school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students were among 13 people killed in the deadliest attack on children since the military coup last year<\/p>\n<p>Government helicopters have struck a school in north-central Myanmar, killing at least 13 people, including seven children, in what would be the deadliest attack on children since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/01\/myanmar-coup-a-year-under-military-rule-in-numbers\">junta seized power last year<\/a>, a school administrator and an aid worker have said.<\/p>\n<p>School administrator Mar Mar* said she was trying to get students to safe hiding places when two of four government Mi-35 helicopters hovering north of Let Yet Kone village in Tabayin, about 110km (70 miles) north-west of Mandalay, began attacking on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/20\/myanmar-seven-children-killed-in-junta-strike-on-village-school\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students were among 13 people killed in the deadliest attack on children since the military coup last yearGovernment helicopters have struck a school in north-central Myanmar, killing at least 13 people, including seven children, in what would be the d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,1906,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48652,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48651\/revisions\/48652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}